beauty quark

A beauty quark is a quark with a charge of -⅓ and a mass of approximately 10,000 times that of an electron.

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Searching for new physics with beauty particles

A new LHCb analysis confirms a previously observed tension with the Standard Model, but more data and improved theoretical calculations are needed to determine whether new physics is at play

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Physics
24 September, 2025

The measurement of a lifetime

New ATLAS measurement of the lifetime of the electrically neutral beauty meson is the most precise to date

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Physics
19 December, 2024
Physics
News
19 December, 2024

LHCb

Experiments
Experiments

CMS gets first result using largest yet LHC sample

The CMS collaboration at CERN has submitted its first paper based on the full LHC dataset collected in 2018 and data collected in 2016 and 2017

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Physics
15 February, 2019

Discovery of a new class of particles at the LHC

The LHCb experiment has observed for the first time particles made up of five quarks

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Accelerators
14 July, 2015